Young Adult Contemporary

A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away...

Jilly thinks she's figured out how life works. But when her sister, Emma, is born deaf, she realises how much she still has to learn. The world is going to...

Quiet Halley and popular Scarlett have been friends for years, balancing each other perfectly - until the summer of their 16th birthdays. Scarlett's boyfriend is killed in a motorbike accident,...

A gently entertaining and charming fairy story that also deals cleverly with a young child's real problems and emotions. Connie is not a child who likes books. So she's not...

Fourteen-year-old Edwina is growing up in a town where nothing ever happens-and her mother wouldn't let her near it if it did. Then Tom Atkinson comes along. He works with...

Grace put out her hand, almost touching the mirror. Her image did the same. 'There's another world in there.' 'We could float in and out of it.' Deep in a...

Fifteen-year-old Zoe has a secret - a dark and terrible secret that she can't confess to anyone she knows. But then one day she hears of a criminal, Stuart Harris,...

Two award-winning books inside. Cleo's best friend is away, her parents are busy, and there's nothing to do but count raindrops - or tidy her room. Just when she thinks...

You wake in the middle of the night, your arms and feet pinned by strong hands. As you thrash your way to consciousness, a calm voice says, 'Steady. We're here...

"I should have asked the question "How could someone who was missing be in two places at once?" Instead, I asked the wrong question -- four wrong questions, more or...

Bossy Bear is very bossy. He wants everything his way and he wants it NOW! In his picture-book debut, the founder of the hugely successful Uglydolls franchise has created an...

Josh Cope is just an average boy. So why is an international corporation so convinced that he is the key to conquering their new market: the past? Drawn into a...

When we last saw George and Harold, they were headed to jail for the rest of their lives. What could be worse? How about being pulled from prison by a...

JUMP GIRL is set in the glamorous and thrilling scene of international show jumping and tells the gripping story of foster teenager, Ebony Scott Harris, and her struggle to prove...

Mummy Bear and Daddy Bear reassure their three little bears that each is equally special to them. But the little bears start to wonder: do their differences - being the...

Spot and his friends have a wonderful time at helen's fancy dress party, but the best fun of all is the surprise at the end.

At the park, Spot and his friend Helen like to play ball. When Spot throws the ball too far, a new friend helps them get it back.

Spot takes a trip to the seaside and discovers all the fun that can be had on the beach and in the water.

The compelling and cinematic second novel from Belinda Jeffrey, author of Brown Skin Blue. Big River, Little Fish is the highly anticipated second novel from Belinda Jeffrey. Set in South...

Winner of the Michael L. Printz Award * "An emotionally raw thriller...a haunting account of captivity and the power of relationships." -- Publishers Weekly, starred review The captivating, disturbing, and...

The second volume in Philip Pullman's incredible His Dark Materials trilogy. Since the first volume was published in 1995, the trilogy has been acclaimed as a modern masterpiece, and has...

Fourteen-year-old Rachel and her witchy family are back. Miri, Rachel's sister, is busy zapping up ways to save the world. Rachel has a better idea. But the luscious love spell...

Friendship is everything to the Freewheelers, but feelings run high when Bryce's past comes back to haunt him A new Freewheeler, a stolen bike and mysterious messages from the past...

Sometimes friendship can show you the way. When Shaun Weller's mum and stepfather leave a groovy city suburb and move to an isolated farmhouse in northern New South Wales, Shaun...

For fans of Michelle Paver's Chronicles of Ancient Darkness and the Spirit Animals series comes the second book in this exciting new Stone Age series, perfect for middle readers. Tarin's...

Fourteen-year-old Eddie Innocent hopes to one day become an award-winning newspaper journalist. Now he has won a chance to write for the Junior Herald. The only problem is the newspaper's...

A teenage boy at boarding school grapples with life, love, and rugby in a heartbreakingly funny novel. Ryan Dean West is a fourteen-year-old boy at a boarding school for rich...

Through the long, oppressive summer after his grandfather's death, Lucas becomes aware of dark secrets surrounding the old man's activities during the war. Yet no one will speak openly to...

What if victory cost you your life? The final novel in The One Dollar Horse series by prize-winning Lauren St John, in which Casey and Storm compete at the Burghley...

In a ruined castle in the Dark Realm prowls Kaymon the Gorgon Hound. Kaymon is one of six fearsome Beasts unleashed by the wicked wizard, Malvel, to capture the good...

In the perilous Black Ocean lurks Narga the Sea Monster. As well as preying on the rebels fighting evil wizard Malvel, Narga is holding one of the good Beasts of...

If you enjoyed A Minecraft Movie , you'll love this series! Book six in the OFFICIAL Minecraft fiction series for readers age 7+ Morgan, Ash, Harper, Po and Jodi return...

There is nothing to be found in the pages of A Series of Unfortunate Events but misery and despair. You still have time to choose another international best-seller to read....

The Grim Grotto Unless you are a slug, a sea anemone or mildew you probably prefer not to be damp. But unfortunately the Beaudelaires encounter an unpleasant amount of dampness...

There is nothing to be found in the pages of A Series of Unfortunate Events but misery and despair. You still have time to choose another international best-seller to read....

There is nothing to be found in the pages of A Series of Unfortunate Events but misery and despair. You still have time to choose another international best-seller to read....

There is nothing to be found in the pages of A Series of Unfortunate Events but misery and despair. You still have time to choose another international best-seller to read....

Before the woman came the girl - Caitlin Moran's hilarious debut novel, inspired by her own childhood and written when she was just fifteen years old. Fifteen-year-old Morag Narmo really...

Are you IN or are you OUT? Find out in the launch of this exciting new YA series that explores the drama of high school friendship - the ups and...

'UnLondon is at war. We're under attack. And it's been written, for centuries, that you -- you -- will come and save us.' Stumbling through a secret entrance, Zanna and...